The acquisition and planning phases of his effort to revive Oyster Bay are finally over, they say, promising that the coming months will bring more and more tangible change and growth.
But now his administration is bringing about more tangible change to America's health and healthcare system, by dismantling the Affordable Care Act, overhauling the Food and Drug Administration, and nominating pro-life justices to the Supreme Court, among other things.
"I think we'll want to see more tangible evidence of change before it translates into significant investment benefits," he said.
And if it can be assumed that for each of the 700-2,000 fightersfinhters Iraqraq (the current estimate of the Brookings Institution), there are many others who prefer to play jihad with their cheque books, there has been much more than a trickle.Governments follow the streetA more tangible measure of change is the behaviour of Arab states.
Joe Hsueh, partner in Second Muse and founding partner of the Academy for Systemic Change, offers a more tangible process for system change.
It's more likely, and more desirable, that tangible change will be driven organically by formidable artists rather than chastened executives.
But it also involves America pushing hard for less tangible changes: more transparency and democracy to weaken the grip of kleptocrats, as well as reforms to increase trade flows globally and internally—just 12% of African trade is within the continent".It is easier now to send a shipment of goods from Nairobi to Amsterdam than it is to send those goods to many parts of Africa," notes Mr Obama.
Heat waves and droughts and fires in tinder dry forests, torrential rains and flooding, storms that cut off power to millions...lethal extremes that experts say are consistent with how climate change is likely to alter local weather...are starting to make the threat of climate change more tangible, current, and personal, psychological characteristics that make any risk scarier.
Podesta said the administration believes the effort will help make climate change more tangible for Americans.
Although these barriers should be considered and addressed within a parenting intervention to increase child PA, other factors, such as parental support for children's motivation, competence and enjoyment of PA may play a more tangible role in behaviour change.
